Emilia-Romagna is a rich, fertile region of northern Italy, and one of the country's most prolific wine regions – more than 136,000 acres (55,000ha) were under vine in 2010. At 150 miles (240km) wide, it spans almost the entire width of the northern Italian peninsula and is sandwiched between Tuscany and Marche to the south, and Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto to the north. Long, narrow Liguria is its sixth and final neighbor, and all that prevents Emilia-Romagna from being the only Italian region with both an east and a west coast